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Mark Hay

Mark Hay

Mark Hay is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer who covers subcultures of all sorts. You can find more of his works at markehay.com.

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The Missing Sense in Modern Medicine

Researchers argue routine smell testing could detect neurodegenerative disease and other health risks years earlier than current exams.
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The Colonization of the Ayahuasca Experience

“If someone is from the Amazon,” says Evgenia Fotiou, an anthropologist who studies Western ayahuasca usage, “they bring some legitimacy” to an ayahuasca ritual.